Track-It Environment

CLERMONT, Fla. -- Automakers have been climbing aboard the "green" bandwagon for years, with low-emission, high-mileage vehicles that appeal not only to customers looking to save fuel, but to buyers eager to participate in what's perceived to be an... Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- Six years ago, when Barbara Melera bought the venerable D. Landreth Seed Co., it had been decades since Landreths were at the helm, and the company no longer specialized in the vegetables and flowers that had built its fine... Read more

DIMOCK, Pa. — Pat Farnelli says there's something in the water at her house. The last time she drank it, she says she vomited four times. It's made her children sick, too. Read more

Nov. 20--With at least 300 horses stabled at Keeneland at any time, and as many as 1,900 during peak horse sales, disposing of tons of straw and manure shoveled every day from barn stalls becomes a major environmental challenge for the race track.... Read more

MOSCOW — A Russian cruise ship that has been struggling through a huge mass of sea ice for days has finally reached open water off Antarctica. Read more

Nov. 20--A grease fire forced the evacuation Friday of a busy restaurant during lunch.

The restaurant had reopened by 3:15 p.m. Read more

Nov. 20--Faced with the options of canceling projects, closing up shop or asking for money, the Chehalis River Basin Flood Authority has asked the Governor's office for $2.3 million to continue its work. Read more

Nov. 20--NILE VALLEY -- Call it the Great Fish Rescue of 2009.

Some 35 biologists sloshed hip deep through the frigid backwaters of a dying river channel Thursday. Read more

Nov. 20--Efforts to strengthen cleanup standards for tricholoroethylene pollution probably will not impact Myrtle Beach-based AVX Corp. because any new regulations would not be retroactive, according to the S.C. Department of Health and... Read more

Nov. 20--Traffic was backed up at 12:30 p.m. Friday on westbound Illinois 15 near Interstate 255 because a flatbed truck lost the farm combine it was hauling. Read more